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Sophomore Margaret McKinnis writes that Ithaca College students can have a direct impact on their local communities by supporting smalltown bookstores, like Buffalo Street Books.

Commentary: Ithaca needs Buffalo Street Books

By Margaret McKinnis • October 24, 2017
However, we can affect our community now by starting with the seemingly small things, like buying from and supporting our local stores.
Novelist Yewande Omotoso reads an excerpt of her second novel “The Woman Next Door,” at the kickoff event of the New Voices Festival April 5 at Buffalo Street Books.

New Voices Literary Festival spotlights rising writers

By Kate Nalepinski, Life & Culture Editor • April 5, 2017
Henderson described “The Short Short” as a marathon: The two-hour event kept flowing until all the readers finished sharing their stories.
Freshman Bradford Allen browses the stacks at Buffalo Street Books. Buffalo Street Books is a local co-op that offers a program called “First Class,” where students can order their books for classes instead of using the college’s store.

Ithaca College faculty opt for Buffalo Street Books over college store

By Charlotte Robertson, Contributing Writer • September 17, 2014
Ithaca College professors have been asking students to buy their books through Buffalo Street Book's "First Class" program over the college's Bookstore.

ITHACA TODAY: Thursday, Feb. 27

February 27, 2014
Your guide to what's happening in Ithaca.
Editorial: Co-operating for a better college

Editorial: Co-operating for a better college

By The Ithacan • October 31, 2013

With more than a dozen cooperatives in Ithaca, the community has become a hub for member-owned and democratically operated enterprises. From consumer co-ops like Buffalo Street Books and GreenStar Market...

Kim Blaha ’09, an employee at the GreenStar cooperative Market, the city's only co-operative grocery store, speaks to Debbie carmichael, an ithaca local and customer, Wednesday at the store on West Buffalo Street.

Ithaca celebrates its many co-ops during national co-op month

By Megan Devlin, Editor-in-Chief • October 24, 2013

October is National Co-op Month, and Ithaca has more than 80 years of cooperative history to motivate the community to continue expanding its co-op landscape. A cooperative, or “co-op,” is a legal...

A tale of 200 years

By Lucy Walker, Staff Writer • March 30, 2012
There are bricks instead of cobblestones, Asian cuisine rather than porridge and sustainable dormitories in the place of decaying tenements. Ithaca may be a few centuries and an ocean away from Charles Dickens’ London, but that won’t stop Ithaca College’s English Department from celebrating his life and work this spring.
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